We recently made the case that the role of a settlement services provider has changed—and dramatically, at that. Here is the link to refresh your thoughts, Now, we’d like to show you how Commonwealth USA measures up! New Standards Once upon a time, a mortgage lender more-or-less handed the transaction file (figuratively) to the service provider once the underwriter approved the loan application. From there, it was basically a countdown until the closing. My, how things have c

In a Housing Wire article which ran at the end of 2017, S&P Global Ratings predicted that non-QM mortgage loans would double and perhaps even triple in 2018. You can see the entire article here: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/42000-sp-we-expect-non-qm-market-to-double-or-even-triple-in-si... Early indications at the end of Q1 show that this is, indeed, coming to fruition. And while we can certainly debate the differences and similarities between a Non-QM loan and the o